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About the Recovering Leader

Welcome to the Recovering Leader, designed to help you achieve your goals as a leader by sharing with you what works for others with similar questions and challenges.

Here you'll find 700 posts spanning practical experiences over a dozen years of my work coaching other c-level and emerging leaders, which followed a 20-year career as a financial services executive, and my coach training at Georgetown.

About me

I live in San Francisco. My family and I returned here in 2013 after several years in Southern California. I originally moved to the Bay Area in 1995. Before that, I had lived in Boston, DC, and NYC. I grew up in Rochester, NY and went to prep school in Michigan.

Professionally, I’ve been in the business world since 1986. I know it sounds cliché that I started in the mail room (of a bank outside of Boston). That was shortly after ending a brief and, I will admit, not-too-promising career in the performing arts. With a broken foot (a stage injury) in a cast, I made my way to the mail room at BayBank / Waltham at age 24, because, in my literal-mindedness, “banks have money, and I’m broke.”

My first decade took me from there to teller to mutual fund telephone representative to project manager to PriceWaterhouse consulting to Charles Schwab—there I joined as a VP in projects. Nine years later I left Schwab, having made it to COO of a division. While everyone called me “brave” (i.e., “Crazy”) to jump ship from the big title, spot at the table, and happy paycheck, I knew I needed to follow a path with heart.

Working with my coach at that point, I then went back to school (Georgetown University) and got certified as a Leadership Coach (in 2003), and have since been an executive coach, mostly with Goodstone Group, LLC.

While I very much miss being “a leader” at times, I love my work, mainly when I see proof my coaching is making a difference for clients – in their careers/lives, and those of the people they lead.

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About the Recovering Leader

Welcome to the Recovering Leader, designed to help you achieve your goals as a leader by sharing with you what works for others with similar questions and challenges.

Here you'll find 700 posts spanning practical experiences over a dozen years of my work coaching other c-level and emerging leaders, which followed a 20-year career as a financial services executive, and my coach training at Georgetown.

About me

I live in San Francisco. My family and I returned here in 2013 after several years in Southern California. I originally moved to the Bay Area in 1995. Before that, I had lived in Boston, DC, and NYC. I grew up in Rochester, NY and went to prep school in Michigan.

Professionally, I’ve been in the business world since 1986. I know it sounds cliché that I started in the mail room (of a bank outside of Boston). That was shortly after ending a brief and, I will admit, not-too-promising career in the performing arts. With a broken foot (a stage injury) in a cast, I made my way to the mail room at BayBank / Waltham at age 24, because, in my literal-mindedness, “banks have money, and I’m broke.”

My first decade took me from there to teller to mutual fund telephone representative to project manager to PriceWaterhouse consulting to Charles Schwab—there I joined as a VP in projects. Nine years later I left Schwab, having made it to COO of a division. While everyone called me “brave” (i.e., “Crazy”) to jump ship from the big title, spot at the table, and happy paycheck, I knew I needed to follow a path with heart.

Working with my coach at that point, I then went back to school (Georgetown University) and got certified as a Leadership Coach (in 2003), and have since been an executive coach, mostly with Goodstone Group, LLC.

While I very much miss being “a leader” at times, I love my work, mainly when I see proof my coaching is making a difference for clients – in their careers/lives, and those of the people they lead.